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TV's Hits and Misses
TV executives must have been happy to put a fork in the 2012-13 season. Ratings dropped across the board for broadcast networks due to fading reality franchises and the failure to launch any major new scripted hits. Cable also slumped, ...
TV executives must have been happy to put a fork in the 2012-13 season. Ratings dropped across the board for broadcast networks due to fading reality franchises and the failure to launch any major new scripted hits. Cable also slumped, with audience levels flat compared with the previous season. And with the number of viewers who time-shift growing, the path to success is more treacherous than ever. Here are the shows that navigated the bumps - and the ones that became ratings road kill.
Let us now praise Mark Burnett. Not only did the producer give NBC hope with The Voice, but he also had faith that millions of people would sit down to watch time-tested stories from the Good Book. It helped that Burnett and his wife and fellow executive producer Roma Downey did a publicity push at megachurches. The premiere was the second-highest-rated show for History, with 13.1 million viewers.
It's not an exaggeration to call the CBS (and now TBS) sitcom this generation's Friends. The show's age-defying ratings climbed in its sixth year to 15.5 million total viewers. It was also up 11 percent among the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic. "It's truly a marvel," says an executive at a rival network. Now TV's No. 1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory helped CBS become the top network among the 18-49 crowd for the first time in 21 years.
The Robertson family delivered a record rating for A&E when it scored 9.6 million viewers for its April 24 finale. (No wonder the cast is asking for a big raise.) While it might be surprising that no broadcast network has attempted to replicate the success of Duck Dynasty and other cable reality shows set in rural America, there's a reason: "The audience is very downscale," one network exec notes. As long as broadcast TV depends on advertisers who want wealthy viewers, you won't see any duck callers without a subscriber fee.
The Fox thriller is shoving an ice pick straight into the eye of the old TV business model. Star Kevin Bacon requested that the show have a shortened run of 15 episodes, and in response to the success of this tactic, next season other networks will experiment with several new limited-run series. The Following is also a strong indicator of the way viewers are time-shifting. Of the show's 16.4 million viewers, about 8 million people tuned in to the drama the night it aired, according to Fox. Another 3.9 million watched it later on DVR; 2.5 million saw it in repeats; 700,000 viewed it via video on demand; and 1.3 million streamed it via Fox.com or Hulu.com.
ABC's sophomore sensation proves that shows about Washington, D.C., can be sexy and addictive. The drama's Season 2 finale attracted 9.1 million viewers, its largest audience yet, up 25 percent from its Season 1 ender. "We're always discussing how amazed and grateful we are for the fans who watched our tiny seven-episode Season 1 and then spread the word to bring in new 'gladiators,'" says exec producer Shonda Rhimes. "It's thrilling to have the show find such a great audience in Season 2."
Panelist and investor Kevin O'Leary says the shaky economy has more people wanting to control their own destinies by becoming entrepreneurs. With the ABC hit drawing 6.2 million viewers and boasting 17 percent growth in the 18-49 demographic - more than any other reality series this season - he might be right.
NBC's recovery begins with The Voice. As viewers gravitated to the chemistry among coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Shakira and Usher, The Voice helped make NBC the only network with ratings growth during May sweeps. What's the appeal? "The Voice," executive producer Mark Burnett says, "is a kindhearted show that has current recording and touring superstar coaches, current songs for contestants, a set that feels like it lives in 2013 and a production team that is totally A-list."
Never before has a basic-cable series ended the season as TV's No. 1 drama among viewers 18-49. But AMC's zombie drama did just that, averaging 7 million fans in this demographic. "We hope that zombies live forever," AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan said at a recent business conference.
American Idol/The X Factor
Despite the addition of judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban, Fox's Idol lost about a quarter of its viewers and will undergo a major cost-cutting makeover next season to keep it profitable. As for The X Factor, will Simon Cowell ever get it right? While NBC's The Voice shone last fall, The X Factor's attempt at a reboot with new judges Demi Lovato and Britney Spears led to an 18 percent decline in ratings among viewers 18-49. For Season 3, Cowell is again trying a judges' panel switcheroo.
MTV's attempt to fill the Jersey Shore void never quite lived up to its predecessor, but this freewheeling look at a group of West Virginia pals (which averaged around 3 million viewers) did well enough to earn a second season. However, the death of star Shain Gandee on April 1, coupled with other cast members' legal troubles, led MTV to pull the plug. "Given Shain's tragic passing and essential presence on the show, we felt it was not appropriate to continue without him," the network said.
The cancellation of the NBC sitcom makes Matthew Perry a three-time loser in his post-Friends primetime career (the other duds were Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Mr. Sunshine). But he won critical raves for his recurring turn as sleazy politician Mike Kresteva on The Good Wife. Maybe a network should consider giving him a lead role as someone other than a neurotic whose life is falling apart.
After its 2012 debut, NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt declared the heavily promoted musical drama "an unqualified success." Much of that success had to do with its airing after The Voice. When Smash had to stand on its own in its second (and final) season, the audience dropped faster than a crowd fleeing a theater during intermission at a Broadway bomb.
TNT execs agonized over the fate of this cop drama, but ultimately critical acclaim and a Peabody Award couldn't save the show after it posted low ratings. The Season 5 finale averaged 1.8 million viewers, which was actually up from last season, but it wasn't enough to offset rising production costs. "We are enormously proud of Southland, which stands as one of the best police dramas ever made," the network said in a May 10 statement after canceling the show. It remains to be seen if a TV-movie will be produced to wrap up loose ends.
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adventures of law mommy: Am I The Only One?
Sorry for this post, which is short and completely without meat.
I never watched Jon and Kate Plus 8 until last month.
The only reason I watched an episode or two last month was because I was chained to my bed by surgery and a weird allergic reaction that required me to take a lot of drugs that made me really, really sleepy.
I don't get the attraction of the show. The idea of eight children makes me want to go run and hide in a closet with a bottle of Valium and a fifth of rum.
And yet I find myself reading People Magazine articles about them and watching an occaional episode.
Am I the only one who thinks that maybe, just maybe, this "marital discord" is really just a marketing stunt for a show that's maybe not really a "reality" show anymore?
Or is that just the cynical divorce attorney in me talking?
PS - on my second round of steroids since the rash from the allergic reaction began to re-appear slightly after I finished the first round. Hoping this second round knocks it out. The steroids are making me jumpy and bloaty and the dreams...oh my word...the dreams...Last night I dreamt that a whole bunch of people were getting coffee in Lana's bedroom at 4:30 in the morning and I was all, "Hey! You idiots! My daughter's bedroom is NOT a convenience store!"
I have never watched the show, but I have also wondered if all of this current stuff is just trumped up, or at least blown out of proportion, for ratings. Whether it is or not, however, I just can't imagine allowing my life to be broadcast for the whole world to see. I mean, I'm sure it helped with the financial strain of having that many kids, but still. I just can't imagine.
Here's hoping this round of steriods takes care of things. I shall be monitoring Dillards for 75% off swimsuits and a lunch opportunity!
I never watched the show, and still haven't even though my people is domonated by them (drives me nuts give me fat celebs and dead people) but anyway. When we first got home we WERE ALWAYS ASKED "do you watch JK8" cause you have twins that are asian?!?
God, i think it is horrific. stupid and at least Tori and Dean are just dumbasses and funny!
I used to watch it occasionally, but it started to bug me how on EVERY episode they got to go someplace amazing and expensive where no normal family would ever go. (Behind the scenes at the zoo, to a pricey private resort in Hawaii, etc etc) It just felt like the parents traded their private family life for all these fabulous prizes. And now that it's apparently taking a huge toll on their marriage? I refuse to watch because I don't want to help the show in the ratings. They need to wake up and walk away from the cameras.
Sweetie, I think you're kidding yourself if you think coffee's all you'd offer him, bloating and all.


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The majority of state-registered investment advisors (76.8%) maintain policies and procedures related to technology or cybersecurity, despite the fact that a small percentage of firms have experienced a cybersecurity incident, according to a just-released survey of small to midsize firms by the North American Securities Administrators Association.
NASAA's pilot survey of small and midsize firms' cybersecurity practices, released Wednesday, was conducted in late June and early July and includes responses from 440 state-registered advisors from nine states — Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
NASAA spokesman Bob Webster told ThinkAdvisor that these states are members of either NASAA's IA Section or Board.
The responses were from firms of various sizes — 37% manage more than $25 million, 47% have assets under management of less than $25 million, and 16% do not manage assets. The firms had between one and 100 employees and between one and 39 investment advisor reps and averaged three employees and two investment advisor reps.
While NASAA said that state securities regulators continue to review the survey results, it released the following preliminary findings:
Only 4.1% of firms indicated they had experienced a cybersecurity incident and even fewer, only 1.1%, indicated they had experienced theft, loss, unauthorized exposure, or unauthorized use of or access to confidential information.
Most state-registered investment advisors (85%) use computers, tablets, smartphones or other electronic devices to access client information.
While 92% of firms use email to contact clients, only 50% of the firms use secure email.
Furthermore, 56.7% of firms have procedures in place to authenticate instructions received from their clients via email.
62% of firms report undergoing a cybersecurity risk assessment internally or via a third party. The frequency of these assessments varied widely.
Just under half of firms (44.4%) report having policies and procedures or training in place related to cybersecurity. Similarly, 47.5% of firms report having policies and procedures or training related to the disposal of electronic data storage devices.
NASAA says that additional jurisdictions are administering the "template survey," which NASAA says "will further enrich the ongoing regulatory conversations on cybersecurity."
Webster told ThinkAdvisor that "beyond the pilot project, all NASAA members (U.S. and Canada) have received the survey template and it is up to them whether they will administer it."
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Massachusetts and Illinois have performed similar cybersecurity surveys outside of the NASAA pilot project.
NASAA plans to continue to work with the jurisdictions that were "pilot participants" as well as additional jurisdictions to further analyze how cybersecurity developments affect state-registered investment advisors.
"Despite the relatively low rate in cybersecurity incidents identified in the compilation of pilot results, state securities regulators are aware of the increase in cyberattacks in the financial services industry, and the importance and associated difficulties of securely maintaining private data," NASAA stated in releasing the preliminary results.
As NASAA's study of cybersecurity practices of state-registered advisors continues, NASAA said that it expects to begin working toward "recommended practices and engage in additional conversation with the industry."
Check out Advisors, Get Paranoid: Your Firm Is a Hacker's Candy Store on ThinkAdvisor.


I was saddened to find out that the lovely, older, official door greeter who lovingly stamped our passports, handed us the pretzel rods, and bid us a good day would not be doing that anymore. She will be missed but I am sure she is now stamping the passports of those waiting to enter the Pearly Gates and redirecting those who don't qualify.
Tu-Na Helper loves pretzels and I love chocolate. What a combination!! Although it was only 9:30 in the morning, we still ate them because we didn't want them to melt. They were delicious!! Thank you to Heather's Book Nook & Sew Much More!
Gathering Friends Quilt Shop is located at 101 S. Main St, Bird Island MN. Note the word "Bank" above the door.
Deb Jacobs, co-owner with her sister-in-law, Kathy Ludowese, opened the shop in the old bank building which had been built around 1900.
You can see this picture of the bank being built just inside the front door.
Nudged by their Moda representative, Holly Taylor, Deb and Kathy began their book writing career sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at their office desk located inside the bank vault. "We had to like each other," Deb laughed. I got a tour of the bank vault (or should I say I stuck my head inside the door) and noted that it indeed was not very big.
Together, Deb and Kathy proceeded to write 24 quilting books and many, many patterns. Check out their website here or their Etsy shop here to order books, patterns, and fabric.
Look, a hexi floor!! This original floor is found in the entry. If you look closely, you'll also see it in another picture below.
In 2004, they expanded the store by purchasing the adjacent two buildings.
Prior to opening the shop, Deb had been sewing from home. She was looking for something to do and attended a quilt retreat in 1995. She joined forces with her sister-in-law and they opened the quilt shop in 1998. Twenty years later they are planning to retire and are in the process of selling their business to a potential buyer. Had I known that it was for sale, I might have bought it! We wish them well.
Deb is showing off one of her and Kathy's books. I actually have that one!!! I believe it was an incentive prize from one of the sections years ago.
Stop by this shop to browse the 3000 bolts of fabric.
Here's the view as you step inside the door. This is the bank portion with original hardwood floor. You can see the open vault door on the left side of the picture. The inside of the vault appeared to be about 6′ square making Deb and Kathy's office space very cozy. The two adjoining buildings are connected with a wide stairway for easy access as shown in the middle of the picture.
The ceiling looks like an original tin ceiling but I didn't notice it until I was preparing this picture.
The shop is filled with numerous samples to provide customers with inspiration.
For customer ease and comfort, the clearance items and classroom have been moved from the upstairs side of the bank building to an area on the main level (on the right side of this picture).
Deb advises quilters not to be afraid to use color in their quilts. "Don't be matchy-matchy. Every quilt needs a pop of color." This is evident in their colorful shop samples.
You can find more info on their website here as well as check out their books and patterns for sale and class offerings.
Plan a trip to Bird Island to browse this shop and look for the picture of the bank being built. When you do get there, be sure to look up to see the ceiling and let me know if it is an original tin one. Oh, and tell them that Tu-Na sent you.
We said our goodbyes and jumped into the car. Tu-Na Helper had another phone conference and he wanted to get to Hutchinson before it began. We didn't make it.
When we finally arrived at Quilt Haven on Main (featured in 2016 post here), they remembered that Tu-Na Helper was dubbed CEO (Carry Everything Out) at their shop last year. He said the title still fits. Bonnie, the owner, showed me a wool pressing mat. I've seen friends using one and think I'd like one, too, but I need to do a little research first before I make a purchase.
We grabbed two jumbo raspberry/white chocolate muffins from a local bakery and two coffees from a coffee shop and then hit the road again. Sorry, no picture of the muffins as I didn't think to do it until they were gone. You will just have to take my word for it that they were delicious!!
Our next stop would be DeAnn's Country Village Shoppe in Litchfield. I've found great bargains there and was hoping I would again. I was not disappointed. They were celebrating Derby Days and their demolition room (clearance) was an additional $1-2 off per yard. I should have grabbed a bolt of bicycles on a pink background but I couldn't think where I'd use it until we were far outside the city.
There were large scraps in the box making these bags rather stuffed. It took him about 15 minutes to complete the task.
We checked out of the South Central region here and each of us received our incentive prize of a ceramic mug, two chocolates, and enough coffee for two mornings.
After leaving the shop, we had to backtrack a bit to pick up Quilted Treasures in Rogers as they had already been closed when we were there earlier in the week. We arrived just at closing time but Tu-Na Helper noted the sign on the door indicated they were open until 8 this evening. I guess he wouldn't have had to drive so fast after all.
We also checked out of this section, East Central Region, and received our incentive prize.
We each got a small project pouch with lots of zippered pockets.
I found several fat quarters that were on clearance for $1.50. I would have found more but Tu-Na Helper informed me that we needed to be on our way if we wanted to make it to Gruber's in Waite Park before closing time.
We made it there just minutes before closing time. Sue, happy and smiling as ever (I featured her shop last year — read the post here), invited us to shop anyway and we did.
Later, we found Joy outside of a hotel while we were looking for a room.
The attached white paper invited us to take it and leave it somewhere along our journey and then let Mandy's Family Daycare on Facebook know where it traveled to. So I tucked little Joy into the car planning to take it back to North Dakota unless I found somewhere else.
We grabbed some supper at the Urban Lodge in Sartell and then headed to the hotel. Tomorrow would come early as we had to drive to Randall and get there by opening at 9.
I had chicken wild rice pizza. It was delicious. I ate half of it and wrapped the rest in foil for lunch tomorrow.
Tu-Na Helper had a pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw and homemade potato chips. He said everything was delicious including the beer.
I'm wondering if Tu-Na Helper needs a nap. He found this display at Gathering Friends in Bird Island.
Tu-Na Helper had another phone conference today but we didn't make it into Hutchinson in time so we had to park on a country road for about an hour (it's been quite a few years since I've done that!). He whispered for me to take a pic of the crop duster that was spraying the field beside us. We eventually moved to another country road to avoid the drift only to have a dump truck come and dump dirt on the road in front of us.
Tu-Na Helper liked how this restroom in Quilt Haven on Main in Hutchinson was decorated or maybe he was finally relieved that his phone conference was over and we finally made it to the shop.
Tu-Na Helper found the snack table at Gone to Pieces in Kimball. We each had some snacks and grabbed a bottle of water for the road. Thank you!!
Quilters are coming from all over the U. S. for the shop hop. This display was at DeAnn's Country Village Shoppe in Litchfield. Tu-Na Helper proudly left two marks beside North Dakota. We were told that not all the hoppers who had stopped had indicated where they were from. The first year we did the shop hop, one of the shops had a state map to color in your state to indicate where hoppers were from. There's still time to complete several sections of the hop before it ends on August 12th.
When I'm tired, I can't think fast enough. The fabric with the bicycles would have been perfect for the backing of my French Poodle quilt. We saw lots of bicycles in Paris.
I'm very forgetful. I forgot to add biscotti to our Trader Joes list and now we have to go without.
I can make biscotti when I get home.
Question: What do you eat with your coffee/tea? Usually, I don't have anything but once in a while I'll have a biscotti from Trader Joes when I'm home or a pastry when I'm traveling.
My gosh you saw a lot of wonderful things on this post – I love all those shops that you have visited. You should post a map of them when you are done so we can see on a map where they are all located. You got such cute mugs and coffee – I would have eaten the muffins before I thought to take a photo too. I love to nibble on biscotti, cookies, cake – muffins – anything sweet with coffee!!
Looks like lots of fun shops as well as yummy foods.
Hi Karen. I love following you on your shop hop, it inspires me to do this, maybe next year! Do you purchase something from every shop? Just wondering.
What a fun post! I felt I was with you on this wonderful adventure!
I am not a quilter, but I enjoy reading your blog!
I am green with envy!!! You are so lucky to have a "helper". Maybe someday. Enjoy your posts so much. The bank is worth the trip alone.
Can you back track the same way home and get that fabric? Or do a mail order? Things like this go by so fast. Tuna Helper, you would be such a help down here if I ever went on a blog hop, I will keep you in mind, but then again, you might not get permission to leave home.
Another busy but wonderful day! Man, y'all get around!! I love your adventures! The pink bicycle fabric sounds fun! Hope you see it tomorrow at another shop! Got my fingers crossed for ya!! Oh and with my morning coffee, I like silence!! Usually, my husband and kids are still in bed and even the dogs and cat are still asleep!!! It's a nice slow way for me to wake up!!!
I've been to almost all of those shops, and they are some of the best! My usual thing with coffee, first thing in the morning, is toast with fig jam. I don't usually drink coffee throughout the day; just one cuppa in the morning. When you said bicycle fabric, I immediately thought of the poodle quilt!
Your photos are so terrific. They make all the shops look so inviting. I've been to several of the ones you profiled today, but I'd love to see them all. You've gotten some great prizes for completing the sections.
I don't drink hot tea in the morning, just with supper in the winter. I do drink iced tea in the evening in the summer to cool off.
What a fabulous day. I love your posts each year. It makes me feel as if I'm there, so next year, put up Tennessee with a mark beside it. LOL I don't eat biscotti or drink coffee or tea, so I can't really answer that, but I do like a Dunkin' Donuts Boston Creme with a glass of milk!
You can add Alabama next year too! I am right there with you! LOL I sometimes enjoy a sweet treat with my coffee, but usually just have coffee … most all day! At least until around 3. After that I drink water!
Another great day…I so love reading your posts, I feel as though I'm right there with you and Tu-Na Helper! Thanks for the link to Gathering Friends…table runners are my favorite item to make and am always looking for new ideas!
forgot — I drink coffee every morning most days coffee only for breakfast — when traveling I tend to treat my self to some type of pastry!


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The Convento de las Carmelitas Descalzas de San José of Toledo (Castile-La Mancha, Spain) is a monastic building dating from the second half of the 16th century.

The Toledan community of Discalced Carmelites was founded by St. Teresa of Ávila herself. Being the resting house of Saint Teresa in the city.

History and description
In 1572 Don Fernando de la Cerda began the construction of a house in Toledo, attached to the walls of the city, raised on it its back facade, of marked Mannerist taste, with rustic ashlars. The works were interrupted on the death of Don Fernando, in 1579, disregarding his heirs of finishing the work and ending the count of Montalbán, grandson of that one, to sell to the nuns, in 1607, the half-built house.

The construction, due to Don Fernando de la Cerda, constitutes the most interesting nucleus, architecturally speaking, of what are the conventual dependences, singularly what was courtyard of that house, with two of its sides raised, when they become to own to the Religious and that they complete; Especially the arrangement in it of a half-point arch that jumps between swollen spans, similar to that of the courtyard of the cathedral treasury.

The works of the convent church did not begin until 1626, and in 1640, the master of works and alarife of Toledo, Diego Benavides, and the master of masonry, Lucas del Valle, contracted the realization of the decorative yeserias of the church, being carried out, the following year, of the work of the collateral chapel of the presbytery, of the side of the gospel.

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Discalced Carmelite Order
16th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Spain
Roman Catholic churches in Toledo, Spain
Convents in Spain

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family of an Ethiopian-Israeli man held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip demonstrated in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem to mark two years since his disappearance.
A crowd of supporters joined the family of Avraham Abera Mengistu at the rally Sunday night, The Times of Israel reported.
Mengistu, 30, of Ashkelon, is believed to have voluntarily climbed over the security fence between Israel and Gaza in September 2014, and since then has not been heard from. He suffers from mental illness and was exempt from serving in Israel's military.
The family also has appealed to the international community to intervene with Hamas. Last week, the family marched alone at Zikim beach, near where Mengistu crossed into Gaza.
Hamas has admitted that it holds Mengistu, as well as a Bedouin-Israeli man who also is said to be mentally ill, who crossed into Gaza. Hamas also holds the remains of two Israeli soldiers, Lt. Hadar Goldin and Sgt. Oron Shaul, both killed during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Mengistu immigrated with his family to Israel in 1991 when he was 5 years old.


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Belle from Beauty and the Beast loves books and, although she was birthed in the 19th century, also code. Or at least that's Hasbro's storyline for her. The new Dance Code Belle doll teaches kids the fundamentals of coding all in the name of getting Belle to dance. Kids can program dance routines through Belle's companion Android / iOS app. Belle talks and sings, too. She's a triple threat as we would say in the biz. I don't know anything about the biz.
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Biagini agrees to deal with Astros, who cut Sanchez
Joe Biagini agrees to deal with Astros, who cut Aaron Sanchez
HOUSTON -- Reliever Joe Biagini agreed Monday to a $1 million, one-year deal with the AL champion Houston Astros, who declined to offer a contract to starter Aaron Sanchez and allowed the former All-Star to become a free agent.
Both right-handers were acquired from Toronto at the July 31 trade deadline along with minor league outfielder Cal Stevenson for outfielder Derek Fisher.
Biagini, who turns 30 in May, had a 7.36 ERA in 13 regular-season appearances for the Astros and did not pitch in the postseason.
Sanchez, a 27-year-old right-hander, was an All-Star for Toronto in 2016. He went 2-0 in four starts and 18 2/3 innings for Houston, including the first six innings of a combined no-hitter against Seattle in his Astros debut. But Houston said on Sept. 5 that he needed shoulder surgery.
Houston has eight players still eligible for arbitration, including shortstop Carlos Correa, outfielder George Springer and closer Roberto Osuna.


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Reflecting on Burges Salmon community engagement activities
In this post, I reflect on my initial thoughts approaching community engagement activities and the outcomes of my time involved in community projects.
By trainee solicitor Darius Barik
Like most law firms, Burges Salmon is keen to show that it forms part of and contributes to the wider community. We say that community engagement is intrinsic to our business activities and that the firm is prepared to look beyond its immediate confines. Bristol is one of the UK's most vibrant, diverse and dynamic cities, where we all enjoy living and working. It is also thriving economically. Yet there are pockets of deprivation across the city and other social problems are visible in the wider south west area.
Before joining, I admit to being sceptical that the firm's positive rhetoric actually translates into wider social impact. However, it has been refreshing to see that my scepticism was misplaced and the firm's active engagement is something that I am proud to be part of. The numbers themselves are striking. In 2017, the firm partnered with three schools, engaged in initiatives with 27 different community organisations, and collectively contributed over 500 volunteer days. Our community partners are varied, ranging from Lawrence Weston Community Farm and the Avon Wildlife Trust to organisations such as the Wild Goose Cafe and FareShare. In their own ways, each of these organisations looks to address pervasive issues, notably hunger, poverty and homelessness, and enhance social cohesion.
Beyond the facts and figures, my own experiences working with two of these organisations have been particularly satisfying. The Social Innovation Programme (SIP) is a great scheme that we operate in partnership with the University of Bristol (through Bristol Hub, a student social action group). Teams of students are partnered with a local community partner or social enterprise. Each organisation gives their team a brief, setting out a project or challenge that would greatly assist their activities and future development. These range from developing a new website for the community partner to assessing income diversification strategies. The teams have seven weeks to analyse the problem and produce a detailed report for their organisation setting out their key recommendations.
Throughout SIP, Burges Salmon provides facilities, logistical support and business training for the students, as well as a 'business mentor' for each team. This is where I came in. I supported a team whose task was to assess the feasibility of opening a community café and bookshop in the city centre for a small Bristol-based social enterprise. My role was to help the student team consider the key issues, act as a 'sounding board' and ensure that they had access to any Burges Salmon facilities that might be useful. Their final report was staggeringly good - professional, incisive and, most importantly, useful for the social enterprise. In fact, the organisation's trustees commented that the report raised issues that had not been considered previously and that it had helped to shape their future-planning.
It was great to see that the benefits of the programme were widely shared: the students gaining invaluable business nous, while the community partners received the insights of their reports. These relationships often extended beyond the 7 week programme. Students have subsequently taken up internships at the community partners or provided consultancy services during university vacations - real examples of how the programme can make a lasting difference for all involved.
Since September, I've also had the opportunity to be a 'reading buddy' at Barton Hill Academy, a primary school just ten minutes' walk from the office. Every Wednesday lunchtime, a group from Burges Salmon visits the school and spends twenty minutes reading with our buddies. The scheme is facilitated by Ablaze, a fantastic local charity that carefully selects schools whose pupils will benefit most from extra attention and resources (Ablaze also operates a 'number buddies' scheme aimed at enhancing maths skills). Twenty minutes is only short but the additional reading time is invaluable for pupils whose first language may not be English and who, for a variety of reasons, may not have the chance to read regularly to an adult in their home environments. My buddy, a year 2 pupil, has progressed steadily and gained in confidence. It's an incredibly rewarding way to spend a lunchtime.
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In some ways, shipping 61 per cent of our oil and gas production to a foreign country while both Canada and the world is running out of the stuff might be considered a good thing, but you would have to be fairly twisted – or just plain stupid – to go along with the reasoning.
Which just about sums up where Canadians are today when it comes to managing their most vital resource: fossil fuel energy.
In a nutshell, we continue to expand our fossil fuel exports into the United States while our conventional natural gas and crude oil supplies begin to dry up.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, which keeps track of world supplies, at its present rate of production Canada could be out of conventional natural gas in six years. That doesn't mean every well will have run dry by 2014. That just means we will no longer have enough production to supply our needs. That will pose a horrendous situation both for the millions of Canadians who rely on natural gas to heat their homes and for the industrial sector that uses it to manufacture a wide variety of products, including fertilizer to help grow the cheap food to which we have become perhaps too blithely accustomed.
Because the world is running out of fossil fuels even as consumption increases, major oil companies have almost all flocked to Alberta's oil sands.
With about 174 billion barrels of proven reserves – second only to Saudi Arabia – it is a source that will allow the party to continue in a business-as-usual manner for at least a few more decades.
The long-term consequences of this attitude, however, will be punishing and will worsen as we expand the tar sands operations.
The mining of the sands has already created the worst environmental calamity this country has seen, and only about two per cent of the sands have been exploited.
With the permission of both the Alberta and federal governments, oil companies are in the process of destroying an area of the boreal forest stretching about 140,000 square kilometres. It's larger than the state of Florida.
In the process of producing a carbon-heavy oil that is up to five times more greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive than conventional crude, they are destroying a forest that acts as a carbon sink. It constitutes as sort of double body blow to the Earth.
As an energy source for extracting the bitumen from the sands, oil-sand extraction is using an amount of natural gas – a much cleaner fuel – equivalent to that which would heat about one million homes a year. This largely wasteful use of natural gas is slated to increase over the next 10 years by almost 250 per cent – if, of course, they can find enough of the stuff.
Extracting and upgrading bitumen has created tailings ponds that measure, according to Canadian Press, more than 130 square kilometres. They are so large they can been seen from space.
Essentially, they are lakes that contain a combination of water, sand, clay and a host of toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, naphthenic acids and high levels of salt, toxic heavy metals like lead and large amounts of sulphur. They are themselves a source of "fugitive" GHGs through the process of evaporation while at the same time leaching their chemical soup into ground water and the Athabasca River.
The oil sands operations emit about 29.5 megatonnes of greenhouse gases each year, which is equivalent to about five million cars and represents four per cent of Canada's emissions. Those numbers are increasing every year as new projects are brought online and old projects expand. Suncor alone estimates its GHG emissions will more than double by 2012, to 25 megatonnes.
You might think that as a reward for this destruction we would at least be putting a little money aside for a desolate rainy day. Not a chance. We charge the lowest royalties in the world, even with the recent average 20 per cent increases. The lion's share of profits goes to private investors, most of whom are foreign. What little Alberta and Canada earns from its non-renewable resources is spent as fast as we make it with no consideration for posterity. The sands may be creating jobs and multibillion-dollar capital investments, but the owners of the resource – Canadians – aren't getting their share of the profits.
So when a study came out last month that showed the U.S. was modifying, expanding and building new refineries to accept 1.9 million barrels a day of raw Canadian bitumen from the oil sands (which is larger than our current tar sands production), it just seemed par for the course. What's more, Canadian firms are building the pipelines that will transport the bitumen south.
The U.S. will refine our oil and sell back to us and the rest of the world the finished, value-added products. Seems fitting in a world gone mad. The U.S. consumes more oil per day than Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Russia combined.
Yet we continue feeding a beast whose insatiable appetite will ultimately drag us down.
Canadians are living in a fool's paradise believing the tar sands reflect an abundance of resource and wealth. They don't. They reflect the reality of climate change, global chemical pollution and the end of the age of fossil fuels.
It's time we faced this reality. It's time we notified the Americans that we will no longer feed their voracious demands. It's time we stopped destroying our environment to extract every last drop of oil. It's time we prepared for a world without oil.
William Marsden is author of Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care).
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DETAILS: The Jersey Shore. Say what you will, but this stretch of boardwalk, just south of Atlantic City, was quietly peaceful in the early morning hours. The night before saw once of the most violent thunderstorms I've ever witnessed and thus quite a few sleepless hours. So, the chance to photograph the calm after the storm was one I happily embraced.